Gary Hogben

Artistic background

Full time artist, Middle aged English chap living in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, I have always been interested in art since an early age, and I started off by doing pencil sketches of animals, and progressed onto watercolours, giving these away to members of my family.
My first oil painting was done when I was 17, the earliest painting represented on this site is a copy of Metamorphosis of Narcissus by Salvador Dali, which I did in 1985, and it took six weeks!
After that was done I completed numerous other paintings, mostly copies of Impressionist works.
If I liked it, I painted it.
Between 1996 and 2008 I did not paint a thing, only taking up the paint brush, or in this case the spray can after a visit to a street art exhibition, I thought to myself, how hard can that be?.
So I started to experiment with stencils and spray-paint. Progressing onto collage work, the result over the last few years is over 300 artworks, including quite a few commissions. I have sold internationally to America, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Australia, France, Germany and Switzerland.
I now mainly create collage piece's using British stamps.

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Shows/Exhibitions

Urban Art 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016, Brixton, London
'Modern day street art and beyond' Group exhibition 21st Sept 2009 to 24th Oct 2009 at The Knapp Gallery, Regents College, Regents Park, London.
CAN? a group show @ Cultivate, Vyner Street 2nd May - 21st May 2013
Group show at Harvey's Celler's Bristol
Mixed Media group show at Candid Arts Trust, Islington, January 2015
'A Gun for your mouth and a bullet with your name on it' Solo show at Doopo Doopo Forest Hill, December 2014
'Londoners Compass' Group show at The Strand Gallery, London, 18th to 23rd October 2016
Focus LDN Winter Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London 13th - 17th December 2016
Stampex, International stamp exhibition, London 13th - 17th February 2018
Solo show at Lumi Arts new gallery from 11th October to 17th October 7 Denbigh Street, Pimlico, London.
Focus LDN Winter Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London, 2017
Focus LDN Winter Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London 11th - 15th December 2018
Solo show at The Royal Esplanade Hotel, Ryde, Isle of Wight, 25th - 26th September 2020
Start Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, 21st - 25th October 2020
Gallery launch show at The Tom Cox Gallery, Crystal Place, 12th April - 9th May 2021
Sentiment Collection at the Bickerton Grace Gallery, London, 28th - 29th May 2021
Taster show for the Norfolk Open Studios at the Forum, Norwich 16th - 22nd August 2021
Norfolk Open studios last weekend in September first two weekends in October
Summer Group art exhibition at The Yare Gallery, Great Yarmouth, summer 2021
Ongoing show at Another Angle Studios in Lowestoft
Art Fair East, Norwich, 3rd, 4th and 5th December 2021
Circus Group exhibition at The Yare Gallery, Great Yarmouth 12th Nov 2021 - 13th Jan 2022
Spring Art Fair, The Forum Norwich 6th - 10th April 2022
Fauna & Flora group exhibition at the Yare Gallery, great Yarmouth, 1st July - 1st September 2022
Suck It & Sea, Group show at Skippings Gallery, Great Yarmouth with Orson Kartt and Maria McNevin 13th - 15th August 2022
Taster show for Norfolk Open Studios, The Forum, Norwich 15th - 21st August 2022

Accepts Commissions?

Yes